---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telehealth"
description: "Telehealth; Revising the prohibition on prescribing controlled substances through the use of telehealth to include only specified controlled substances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Florida SB 312 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-26"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-09-22"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f3fb9c3-6071-481c-9631-910cbe999754"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/312/ByCategory"
source_hash: "bf5923e46c1bd297aede51238654990a16f972e202580891eada707a282afefb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 312 (2022) — Telehealth

Telehealth; Revising the prohibition on prescribing controlled substances through the use of telehealth to include only specified controlled substances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-26.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 312 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/312/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 312 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/312/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 312 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/312/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-09-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Health Policy; Banking and Insurance; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/03/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-11-03** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-03** Now in Banking and Insurance
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 12/01/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-12-01** Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-01** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/13/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/27/22
- **2022-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-01-27** Immediately certified
- **2022-01-27** In Messages
- **2022-02-03** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-03** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/9/2022)
- **2022-02-03** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-02-09** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2022-02-09** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-22** Substituted for HB 17
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Amendment 667321 adopted
- **2022-02-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-24** In returning messages
- **2022-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (667321)
- **2022-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f3fb9c3-6071-481c-9631-910cbe999754`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).